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Born in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, 7 May, 1947, to Lt. Col. Jack & Peggy Becher. From an army family, he was the first to break tradition and went to university instead, but instead of attending classes, he ended up spending all his time with the drama society, realising his true calling. He moved to Australia when he was 19, working various odd jobs and touring the country by motorbike, eventually marrying and having a son in 1973.

Alan Becher moved from the UK to the east coast of Australia in the 1970s, working mainly as an actor[2] and best known for Razorback (1984) [3], The City’s Edge (1983) and Bliss (1985) [4]. He re-located to Western Australia in 1983 to develop his career as a director and writer. He commenced with the Fremantle young people’s theatre company SWY Theatre in 1991 and guided its move to Perth and eventually its re-birth in 1994 as the Perth Theatre Company based at the Playhouse Theatre[5]. Alan Becher directed over 40 productions of new Australian plays including 17 world premieres, and his productions often toured Australia and internationally [6]. Writing credits include stage adaptations of, Paul Radley’s My Blue Checker Corker and Me, Tom Hungerford’s Stories from Suburban Road [7], Elizabeth Jolley’s The Newspaper of Claremont Street [8], Mudrooroo’s Wild Cat Falling[9] and Fotini Epanomitis’ The Mule’s Foal [10]. He also co-wrote Shadow of the Eagle[11] and conceived Welcome to Dullsville [12], to which he contributed material, together with 14 members of Perth Theatre Company’s Writers’ Lab. [13]

He established the Writers’ Lab (an adjunct to Perth Theatre Company) in 2003. The Lab offered a creative environment in which playwrights and emerging writers were able to test new works, access draft scripts and engage in debate about the practice of playwriting. The Lab expanded to bring together theatre practitioners from a variety of backgrounds to deconstruct and examine the art of theatre.

Alan Becher also designed productions for Swy Theatre Company and Perth Theatre Company. He cast and directed a young Tim Minchin as Mozart in the 2006 Perth Theatre production of Amadeus . He was also an amateur musician, having taught himself piano in the 80's, acting, directing and playing keyboard as manager for the band in the musical Living in the Seventies [14] and commissioned composers to write musical scores to underpin theatre productions such as the adaptation of Elizabeth Jolley’s [15] Milk and Honey (composer Iain Grandage) and Fotini Epanomitis’ adaptation of The Mule’s Foal (composer Veleka Algar). Alan Becher also wrote for corporate launches, promotional DVDs and museum exhibitions.